MARKET VIEW

21 cars sold £244,305 average paid (including premium) £5.09m sale total 62% sold – by sale end Much more Aston Martin ‘glam’ for owners than the old Newport Pagnell works (the location for the previous 18 annual auctions for the 007-endorsed marque) was the sun-blessed grounds of Englefield House in Berkshire, where the penultimate DB5 convertible achieved a results-topping £886,300 in the Bonhams tent. The ex-Jools Holland DB6 Volante MkI also looked Riviera-ready for £494,300. But the biggest votes of confidence in the future of the motorcar surely were the £225,500 invested in a once-daily driver 1954 DB2/4 drophead MkII that had been laid up since the 1970s, and the even more distressed DB2 project, a very early ‘washboard’ model that had been off the road in decay since 1966, bravely taken on for £66,460.